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** I seem to remember Ponder... er, pondering how a god could exist without believers, and speculating that he simply believed in ''himself'' strongly enough to continue existing. As for how he came to be in the first place... we've seen, in ''Reaper Man'', that everything on the Disc has some kind of belief system, enough to believe in their own Death at least. It's a chicken and egg question when and how the god of evolution came to be. One can speculate that the very first living things started wondering where they came from, and considering this was thousands of years ago, this was all the belief in the ''world'' concentrated on a small island, which was enough to result in the creation of a creation god. Said god, however, turned out far more eccentric than usual. Also, perhaps realizing that all the living things had to keep on living in order for him to exist, he started tinkering with plants and animals. Learning as he went, though, he didn't really comprehend how life works in the first place, and concluded that, if he is a creator god, it's up to him to create everything. He does remark that the things he created keep changing in ways he didn't intend; evolution was starting to happen independently of him. But he didn't recognize sexual reproduction because he didn't invent it himself. It took Mrs. Whitlow to explain the birds and bees, so that birds and bees would eventually exist in their evolved forms.
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** I seem to remember Ponder... er, pondering how a god could exist without believers, and speculating that he simply believed in ''himself'' strongly enough to continue existing. As for how he came to be in the first place... we've seen, in ''Reaper Man'', that everything on the Disc has some kind of belief system, enough to believe in Having had worshippers who wiped themselves out, or were wiped out, well, possibly he was their creator god figure, and being shaped by that belief, he naturally started creating life on his own Death at least. It's little island. He was not a chicken and egg question when and how the god of evolution love god, so he never thought about sex or reproduction, people just came to be. One can speculate that the very first living things started wondering where they came from, and considering this was thousands of years ago, this was all the belief in the ''world'' concentrated on a small island, which was enough to result in the creation of a creation god. Said god, however, turned out far more eccentric than usual. Also, perhaps realizing that all the living things had to keep on living in order for him to exist, he started tinkering with plants and animals. Learning as he went, though, he didn't really comprehend how life works in the first place, and concluded that, if he is a creator god, it's up to him to create everything. He does remark that the things he created keep changing in ways he didn't intend; evolution was starting to happen independently of him. But he didn't recognize sexual reproduction because he didn't invent it himself. It took Mrs. Whitlow to explain the birds and bees, so that birds and bees would eventually exist in their evolved forms.be.
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** I seem to remember Ponder... er, pondering how a god could exist without believers, and speculating that he simply believed in ''himself'' strongly enough to continue existing. As for how he came to be in the first place... we've seen, in ''Reaper Man'', that everything on the Disc has some kind of belief system, enough to believe in their own Death at least. It's a chicken and egg question when and how the god of evolution came to be. One can speculate that the very first living things started wondering where they came from, and considering this was thousands of years ago, this was all the belief in the ''world'' concentrated on a small island, which was enough to result in the creation of a creation god. Said god, however, turned out far more eccentric than usual. Also, perhaps realizing that all the living things had to keep on living in order for him to exist, he started tinkering with plants and animals. Learning as he went, though, he didn't really comprehend how life works in the first place, and concluded that, if he is a creator god, it's up to him to create everything. He does remark that the things he created keep changing in ways he didn't intend; evolution was starting to happen independently of him. But he didn't recognize sexual reproduction because he didn't invent it himself. It took Mrs. Whitlow to explain the birds and bees, so that birds and bees would eventually exist in their evolved forms.
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* How does the God of Evolution's backstory work? He seems vaguely surprised by the existence of humans, like he's never seen any animal like the wizards before (he briefly considers they might be gods if they can create hankerchiefs, before realising they're just "tool-using creatures"). This already doesn't fit with how Discworld gods work, but he ''also'' talks about his former worshippers, who apparently had cows and cities and so on. But ''then'' he's taken aback by the very idea of sexual reproduction. We're told this is all millions of years in the Disc's past, but it's hard to tell if it's supposed to be pre-humanity (and the God's worshippers were ... something else) or not (and he's just forgotten what they were like).
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** Also it's GodsHandsAreTied. The Creator can't directly interfere with anything that's been set up and running, he needs to send in someone to do it for him.
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** Unless he was playing a game, as God's involved with the Disc do....
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** Maybe there's no need to look too deeply into it. It's just the tropes of Rincewind being a god's ChewToy, as is his regular fate, and the god having to act through a pawn rather than directly, which is what gods do. Rincewind's track record of success, with assistance, means the god wouldn't need to take trouble with new heroes, not when he can use one already available.
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** Or the ''other'' gods were already playing a game about the final days of XXXX, and the Last Continent's Creator didn't want to rouse the kind of brouhaha that happened when Om stepped in and upset a game-in-progress about the invasion of Omnia.
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** Or the ''other'' gods were already playing a game about the final days fate of XXXX, and the Last Continent's Creator didn't want to rouse the kind of brouhaha that happened when Om stepped in and upset a game-in-progress about the invasion of Omnia.
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** Or the ''other'' gods were already playing a game about the final days of XXXX, and the Last Continent's Creator didn't want to rouse the kind of brouhaha that happened when Om stepped in and upset a game-in-progress about the invasion of Omnia.
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** This god is said by Scrappy to be a nomad creator who travels across the universe making continents instead of worlds - building over stables, with his own worlds being unique and trademarked by kangaroos. And when Scrappy asked that question, he said the world needed heroes - why he needed Rincewind instead of raising his own hero who'd be better than Rincewind is anyone's guess.
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* Scrappy says the Creator could just get the bullroarer himself, and he's right. Surely the Creator can just get it back without upsetting the reality of his own world.
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* Scrappy says the Creator could just get the bullroarer himself, and he's right. Surely the Creator can just get it back without upsetting the reality of his own world.world.
** Unless he was playing a game, as God's involved with the Disc do....
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* Scrappy says the Creator could just get the bullroarer himself, and he's right. Surely the Creator can just get it back without upsetting the reality of his own world.
